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Patent GB-341757-A (GB)
Title: An improved fish heading machine
IPC: A22C25/14
Filed: 1930-02-25
Abstract: 341,757. Fish - heading machine. BISSET, J. D., Esplanade Sawmills, North Esplanade West, Aberdeen. Feb. 25, 1930, No. 6182. [Class 28 (ii).] The fish are carried in parallel oblique pockets of an endless conveyer belt or equivalent flexible member so that the heads protrude at the side and are completely severed on meeting a vertical knife at an acute angle. Shafts 4, 5 carry sprocketwheels driving a pair of endless chains to which plates 9 are attached, forming a moving table. By means of push plates 10 extending diagonally across each plate 9, pockets are formed to hold the fish so that the fish heads meet a revolving circular knife 14 at an acute angle a. The conveyer and knife are interconnected by gearing 11, 12, power being supplied by a motor 15 to the knife shaft 13.
Patent GB-270617-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in shaft driving mechanism
IPC: F16C7/04
Filed: 1927-03-05
Abstract: 270,617. Bentley Motors, Ltd., Bentley, W. O., and Burgess, F. T. March 5, 1927. Addition to 212,992, [Class 122 (i), Engine and like cylinders &c.]. Buyers; dished disc and like springs.-In the shaftdriving mechanism described in the parent Specification, stacks of washers which are aperiodic serve as yielding transmission means. The washers are stamped from ordinary commercial sheet metal which is not perfectly flat, or from distorted, corrugated, &c. sheets, or they may be bent after being cut. The effect is enhanced by the presence of oil. The stack is preferably assembled as a unit upon a split tube or sleeve 10 with end flanges 11 located in recesses 12 in end plates 9 allowing latitude for expansian and contraction of the pile.
Patent GB-1432341-A (GB)
Title: Method of and apparatus for making wire strand
IPC: D07B7/12
Filed: 1972-02-10
Abstract: 1432341 Stranding method and apparatus GKN SOMERSET WIRE Ltd 9 May 1973 [10 Feb 1972] 6215/72 Heading D1T A method of making compacted steel wire strand comprising a central core and at least one layer of wires wound around the core comprises advancing a plurality of round steel wires from separate bobbins to a closing die closing the wires into uncompacted strand, locking the bobbins to maintain the wires taut but without causing plastic elongation thereof, pulling the strand through the closing die and then advancing the strand through a reducing die to deform to non-circular section at least the outer wires of the strand and to reduce the cross-sectional area of such wires, thus increasing the fill factor of the strand. In Fig. 3 wires 13, 13a from braked bobbins pass through a lay plate 11; a non- rotating closing die 14; a first reducing die 17 and a second reducing die 20; there being means for lubricating and cooling the strand between the closing and reducing dies. A conventional band off capstan applies the necessary drawing force. The reducing dies 17, 20 are housed in cooling jackets 18, 19 supplied with water via supply pipes 28 and return pipes 29. The strand is lubricated before entering each die element by means of lubricant supplied through valved supply nozzles 23 fed by a pipe 24 from a tank 25 by means of a pump 26, the lubricant being returned to the tank by a pipe 27.
Patent GB-640359-A (GB)
Title: Device for indicating the lapse of a predetermined time interval
IPC: G04F3/06
Filed: 1947-03-05
Abstract: 640,359. Time switches. NAAMLOOZE VENNOOTSCHAP PHILIPS' GLOEILAMPENFABRIEKEN. March 5, 1947, No. 6272. Convention date, March 26, 1942. [Class 38(v)] [Also in Group XXXVIII] A device for indicating the lapse of predetermined time intervals comprises a plurality of depressible members and a moving part which contacts with a depressed member to give a signal and to restore the depressed member. The closure of a main switch causes a synchronous motor 21 to drive a disc 15 through a friction coupling 17. The disc 15 is mounted on the same shaft as a visible disc 5 marked in minutes, around which are depressible plungers 23. If it is desired to sound a signal after, say three minutes the plunger 23 opposite the figure " 3 " on the rotating disc 5 is pressed. When, after three minutes, the arrow on disc 5 reaches the depressed plunger 23, a roller 35 rides along the bevelled surface of that plunger and depresses a contact spring 37 projecting through a slot 51 in the disc 15 and connected to a circular conducting track 39 on the rear face thereof. The contact 37 meets a co-operating projection 47 connected to a second circular conducting track 41 and the two tracks are thus connected together completing via brushes 43, 45 the circuit of a buzzer 61. The shaft of the contact roller 35 is too long to pass through the slot 51 so that further depression of the contact 37 is prevented and the roller 35 instead raises the plunger 23 and allows the contact 37 to return to its normal position. For photographic dark-room purposes the discs 5 and 15 are made transparent and illuminated by a lamp 59 shining through a suitablycoloured screen 57. The plungers 23 may be formed with a transparent portion above an annular groove 33 so that the face of a depressed plunger is illuminated from within. Marks, e.g. numerals, are provided on a transparent plate 63 and are visible through apertures 65 in the front plate 3. When for example the development of a film is to be timed, the film is provided with a mark similar to that opposite the plunger depressed. The speed of rotation of the disc 5 may be varied by moving the point of contact of the coupling 17 with respect to the centre of the driven disc 15.
Patent GB-617902-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to central heating systems for buildings
IPC: F24D5/10
Filed: 1946-02-28
Abstract: 617,902. Heating buildings. MOUL, F. D., and AIR CONTROL INSTALLATION, Ltd. Feb. 28, 1946. No. 6328. [Class 64(ii)] In a central heating and air conditioning system for buildings of the kind in which air is circulated through ducts arranged in or on an external wall, roof, or ceiling of the building, the ducts are constituted by channels formed between a corrugated sheet and a panel and the inner side of the wall between which panel and wall the corrugated sheet is positioned. A layer of heat insulating material may be provided between the corrugated sheet and the wall, etc., and the outer face of the panel may be provided with expanded metal mesh to form a foundation for plaster. The ridges of the corrugated sheet may be flat topped as shown in the Figure where the channels are formed between a panel 50 provided with metal mesh 52 securing plaster 54, a corrugated sheet 56 and the wall 10 provided with an insulating layer 58.
Patent GB-841740-A (GB)
Title: Homogeneous nuclear reactor fuel composition
IPC: G21C1/24
Filed: 1958-02-27
Abstract: 841,740. Nuclear fuel. NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION Inc. Feb. 27, 1958 [April 29, 1957], No. 6367/58. Class 39(4). An aqueous nuclear fuel comprising uranyl sulphate includes sulphuric acid and a metal sulphate to inhibit the precipitation of uranium peroxide. The composition comprises between 75 and 750 grams of uranium per litre in the form of uranyl sulphate preferably between 200 and 350 grams per litre, the uranium containing at least 20% isotope 235. The metal sulphate may be iron sulphate, preferably ferric sulphate, with or without copper sulphate. Alternatively vanadium sulphate may be used. Between 17 and 600 milligrams per litre of this metal sulphate are required, there being between 0À17 and 2 milligrams of the metal ion present per gram of uranium. The sulphuric acid content is between 13 grams and 150 grams per litre there being between 0À13 grams and 0À5 grams of sulphuric acid per gram of uranium. Various compositions within these ranges are described. Specifications 785,420 and 817,067 are referred to.
Patent GB-552867-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to refrigerator cabinets
IPC: F25D17/04
Filed: 1942-05-12
Abstract: 552,867. Refrigerators. AKTIEBOLAGET ELEKTROLUX. May 12, 1942, No. 6410. Convention date, June 17, 1941. [Class 29] The coil evaporator 11 of a continuous-cycle inert gas absorption refrigerating apparatus is located near the top of a cabinet and extends substantially over the whole area of the top, and the several stretches of the coil are separated by partitions 15 forming compartments at different low temperatures, the bottom of the compartments being provided with fins 18 to cool the air of the main storage space. This arrangement provides a temperature gradient across the top of the main storage chamber and induces a steady air circulation. As shown in plan in Fig. 2 the compartments may contain different lengths of coil, the turns of which may be wider apart in some compartments than in others. The coil may slope slightly to prevent disturbance of refrigerant flow in case cabinet is installed out of the vertical. In the arrangement of Figs. 1 and 2 the inert gas and refrigerant flow in the same direction from right to left, the right hand therefore being the coldest, to cause an air circulation in the direction of the arrows. Ina counter-flow evaporator Fig. 4, the coil may be in steps. A sloping drip tray 19 is located below the fins. The partitions may be of non-conducting material faced with meta lin thermal contact with adjacent parts of the coil. The coil may be compressed to enable it to be inserted from the back through the usual "window" 23, and strips 16 of insulation are inserted from the front around the outside of the compartments. In a modification for wide cabinets the evaporator may provide a coldest central part, with a temperature gradient to either side.
Patent GB-1444215-A (GB)
Title: Windscreen wiper blade assembly for a motor vehicle
IPC: B60S1/38
Filed: 1975-02-14
Abstract: 1444215 Windscreen wipers P JOURNEE 14 Feb 1975 [25 March 1974] 6412/75 Heading A4F A windscreen wiper blade has a harness comprising a short central bridge member 3 on which is pivoted a connector 5 for the end of a wiper arm 6, first cranked arms 15 fitting into the ends of the member 3 and further cranked arms 15 fitting into the outer ends of the first cranked arms 15. End portions 16 of the first cranked arms 15 fit between bracing members 7, 8 within the V-sectioned member 3 and the rear wall of the latter, and portions 16 of the second cranked arms 15 are similarly secured adjacent bracing members 19 in the first cranked arms 15. The members 3, 15 have claws 11, 12, 17 engaging flexer elements in the wiper blade 2.
Patent GB-917172-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus
Inventor: CLARKE JOHN FRANK EDWARD
IPC: G11B15/18
Filed: 1960-02-24
Abstract: 917,172. Change-speed gear. ELECTRIC & MUSICAL INDUSTRIES Ltd. Feb. 24, 1961 [Feb. 24, 1960], No. 6423/60. Class 80 (2). [Also in Group XXXVIII] A magnetic tape recorder is adaptable to play disc gramophone records in addition by plugging in a gramophone pick-up 35 and a three-armed turntable 25 driven from the same motor 51 which drives the capstan 52, the opposite ends 69, 71 of the motor spindle driving the turntable and capstan, respectively. Both the capstan and turntable are rotatable at two different speeds by concentrically arranged controls 21, 20, respectively, mounted centrally on the front panel 3 of the machine. The turntable shaft 11 is also arranged symmetrically between the supply and take-up spool positions. The control 20 is movable to a 45 or 33 r.p.m. setting and moves an idler disc 86,via a control shaft 89 and linkage 92, 95, 83, 84, 85, to engage a step 70 or 71 of the motor spindle and drive a disc 66 mounted on the bottom end of the turntable shaft 11. Automatic stopping means (not detailed) operated in normal manner by the pick-up engaging the run-out groove on a record is preferably arranged to stop the turntable in the Fig. 1 position so that tape spools can be loaded and unloaded without having to remove the turntable. The control 21 is movable to a 3¥ or 7¢ ins./sec. setting and moves an idler disc 113, via a plate 150 and linkage 107, 108, 110, to engage a stepped wheel 118 mounted on the motor spindle 69, and a flywheel 53 on the capstan shaft 52. According to the Provisional Specification the gramophone turntable, pick-up and rest may be permanently attached to form a combined tape or disc apparatus.
Patent GB-295294-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in mud guards for vehicle wheels
IPC: B62D25/16
Filed: 1927-03-08
Abstract: 295,294. Mach, A. G. March 8, 1927, No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Mud-guards of the kind formed of indiarubber or like flexible material 1 reinforced by metal bands 2 are connected to the vehicle by a fixed rear stay 3 and a front stay 4 pivoted at 5 so that in the event of a collision, the guard yields but returns to its normal shape when released.
Patent GB-657654-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the waist portions of trousers or skirts
IPC: A41F9/02
Filed: 1949-03-09
Abstract: 657,654. Garment waistbands. EDGARD, L. March 9, 1949, No. 6459. [Class 141] An extensible waistband is formed in two parts 1, 2 which overlap at the side seam of the garment, the side pocket opening 4 being at an angle to the side seam. The gap between the waistband portions is backed by a portion 6 of the pocket material which is unattached to the waistband and forms a fold or pleat when the waistband is tightened, as shown.
Patent GB-1124582-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to packaging
Inventor: KINGSLEY HARRY
IPC: B65D85/44
Filed: 1965-02-16
Abstract: 1,124,582. Shock - absorbing packaging. WATCHWELL Ltd. 18 March, 1966 [16 Feb., 1965], No. 6542/65. Heading B8C. A package, particularly for fragile articles, is formed by folding a blank of a resilient material such as expanded polystyrene about the articles along fold lines, the blank being provided with deformations to locate and support the articles. In the embodiment described, cups 10, saucers 11 and plates 12 are supported separately when the blank is folded, with the cups arranged in three nested pairs with the base of one cup of each pair within the mouth of the other, and the plates and saucers supported above and below the cups, facing inwardly. The blank comprises a series of planar sections carrying the deformations by which the articles are retained, connected through fold lines enabling the blank to be folded in a generally zig-zag manner to enclose the articles. The bases of the cups are retained by circular depressions 28, 32 in planar sections of the blank while the mouths are retained by annular grooves, e.g. 33, surrounding shallow projections, e.g. 37, in two further sections. The saucers 11 are supported in a stack below the cups, retained by a circular depression 42 and an annular ridge 46. Similar features 20, 24 support the plates in a stack above the cups. Sections 14, 48 of the blank serve as side walls on two sides, and two further flaps (49, 50), Fig. 2 (not shown), may be connected through fold lines to lateral edges of the section (14) to complete a box-like package. The package may be secured by tying, or may be inserted into a tightly fitting box or bag. The deformations and fold lines may be formed by application of a die while the blank is still warm after expansion of the polystyrene.
Patent GB-660062-A (GB)
Title: An improved arrangement in packings for heat exchange plates
IPC: F28F3/10
Filed: 1949-03-10
Abstract: 660,062. Joint-making packings. AKTIEBOLAGET SEPARATOR. March 10, 1949 [March 10, 1948], No. 6575/49. Class 122(iii) [Also in Group XIII] In a plate heat-exchanger comprising juxtaposed plate: 4, 5 having resilient joint packings 6 located in grooves in the plates, the packing material is prevented from being squeezed out of the grooves when the plates are compressed by the provision of linings in the form of wires 7 which may be made of stainless steel or of any suitable material which is harder than that of the packing.
Patent GB-1245721-A (GB)
Title: Typewriter
Inventor: KURAMOCHI SHIGEAKI
IPC: B41J3/36
Filed: 1970-02-11
Abstract: 1,245,721. Typewriters; copy holders. LOUIS MARX & CO. Inc. 11 Feb., 1970 [20 March, 1969], No. 6583/70. Headings B6F and B6W. [Also in Division G5] A typewriter includes a window 34 partially closable by a door 44 and behind which is mounted a pair of rollers 39 carrying a tape 43 on which information is carried, the information preferably being in the form of a readily viewable question and an answer which is covered by the door 44 when in its closed position. The typewriter may be as described in Specification 1,142,491.
Patent GB-775429-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to shields for motorcycles, bicycles and the like
IPC: B62J17/00
Filed: 1954-03-05
Abstract: 775,429. Cycle weather shields. SEBA, R. March 5, 1954 [March 6, 1953], No. 6590/54. Class 136(1). A protecting device for use on motor cycles and bicycles for the protection of the feet and legs of the rider against splashes of water and mud comprises a removable U-shaped screen 3 held in place by flexible rods 2a, 2b which are instantly mountable and removable both from the screen and from a bracket 4 on the vehicle without the aid of any tool. The bracket 4 is permanently fixed to the tube 8 and has recesses 4a for the reception of the rods 2a, 2b. Each rod has a groove 5 which forms a seating for a ball 6 loaded by a spring washer 7. The end of each rod, remote from the bracket 4, consists of a ring 3a which engages in a small pocket 3b formed in each outer corner of the U-shaped screen 3. The upper rods 2a are formed in two parts connected by a screw-threaded sleeve 9.
Patent GB-1373436-A (GB)
Title: Fastening
IPC: A47J37/10
Filed: 1972-02-14
Abstract: 1373436 Bolting, bolted joints GENERAL ELECTRIC CO 14 Feb 1972 [24 Feb 1971] 6753/72 Headings F2H and F2M To fasten two members of thermally dissimilar materials together, such as a plastics leg 14 or a terminal guard 20 and a metallic body member of an electric skillet (10), in such a way that differential expansion between the two members does not stress and loosen the joint, one member (body member 16 or boss 38) has a projecting load bearing surface 22 or 40 fitted in a matching recess 24 or 44 in the second member (guard 20 or leg 14), and the second member has an aperture 30 or 48 shaped so that spaced portions 32 or 50 are defined adjacent and in the same plane as the bottom of the recess, all the bearing surfaces between the portions 32 or 50 formed in the second member, the projecting surfaces 22 or 40 of the first member and a fastener 34 or 52 securing the members together thus lying in a single plane p. By providing other surfaces with clearance 28, the members can contract and expand without loosening the fastener even though they have different coefficients of expansion. The fastener used may be a rivet, but is preferably, as in Figs. 2 and 3, a screw 34 or 52 bearing a washer 54 which is shaped to key in the aperture 48.
Patent GB-1390363-A (GB)
Title: Pivotable brackets for shelves of collapsible furniture
IPC: A47B47/00
Filed: 1971-03-12
Abstract: 1390363 Cabinets BE MODERN Ltd 10 March 1972 [12 March 1971] 6803/71 Heading A4B [Also in Division E2] To enable an article of furniture to be collapsible a shelf is supported by a hinge which comprises a bracket 30 having a lug 31 pivotally mounted on a frame member 6 and formed from a plate member 35 which is formed with an extension part 36 perpendicularly disposed relative to the lug 31 for supporting the shelf, the lug 31 and part 36 being sufficiently spaced from one another (a distance greater than the thickness of the shelf) to allow rotation of the shelf from the "in-use" horizontal position shown to a vertical "transit" position, Fig. 1 (not shown). The bracket shown is formed from an L-shaped blank, and an alternative embodiment Fig. 2 (not shown), may be formed from a Z-shape blank.
Patent GB-947313-A (GB)
Title: Semiconductor composition having low lattice thermal conductivity
IPC: H01L35/16
Filed: 1960-02-26
Abstract: A quaternary semi-conductive composition <PICT:0947313/C3/1> which remains stoichiometric as solidification proceeds is composed of cationic elements bismuth and antimony and anionic elements tellerium and selenium and has the formula Bi2-x SBx Te3-y Seu where 0 < x < 1.6 and 3/2 x+0.6\sEy<3 or where 1.2\sEx\sE1.9 and 1.9\sEy\sE2.4. That is the composition lies above and to the left of line VII, or within area 4c, both in Fig. 1.  The selenium or tellurium may be replaced in part by sulphur up to the limit of solid solubility in the rhombohedral phase, and the composition may be doped with up to 2% of electrically active impurities, of which lead and iodine are exemplified.
Patent GB-763736-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to frames and like structures for receiving plates of glass orother material
Inventor: RAWLINSON WILLIAM ERNEST
IPC: A47J37/08
Filed: 1954-03-10
Abstract: 763,736. Glass or like doors for electric toasters. HOTPOINT ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO., Ltd. March 10, 1955 [March 10, 1954], No. 6996/54. Class 28(1) [Also in Group X] A glass or other plate 4 is retained in the door frame of a toaster or the like by face to face engagement with one part of an L-section member 5 having at least one keyhole slot or projection to engage at least one projection or keyhole slot on a flange at or near the outer edge of one side of the frame. As shown, the frame has an inturned portion 2 to support the plate and an upstanding flange 3 which is enlarged at one side to carry projections 6 having enlarged heads 7 whereby the member 5, with keyhole slots 9, may be mounted on the frame to hold the plate in position, the other end of the plate having previously been inserted under a retaining member at the opposite end of the frame. A portion 12 may be provided to facilitate gripping the member 5 while moving it into position.
Patent GB-1055702-A (GB)
Title: Smelting iron ore
IPC: C22B1/24
Filed: 1965-02-18
Abstract: Iron ore is smelted in a shaft e.g. blast furnace wherein at least part of the iron ore and at least part of the coke and/or fluxing agent are charged into the furnace in the form of ore pellets and coke and/or fluxing agent pellets respectively free from other charge constituents.
Patent GB-331543-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in record-card-controlled adding and printing machines
Filed: 1929-03-04
Abstract: 331,543. Stuivenberg, C. H. March 4, 1929. Statistical machines.-To permit of elasticity in the allocation of printing and adding columns to the various data columns on the cards and to relieve the feeling pins of undue strain, the members preliminarily positioned in accordance with the perforations felt, are subsequently engaged with elements coupled selectively as by Bowden cables to type-setting racks and by disconnectible devices to adding racks, and are then returned to home position or moved forward to effect the type-setting and registering. As shown in Fig. 2, the card 10 is laid on a table 11 moved to the right to carry the card beneath a feeler pin 15 depressed by a spring. When the pin enters a perforation, the member 18 carrying the pin moves with the card and thus differentially positions a tooth 71 with respect to a toothed element 72. Each of these elements is coupled by a Bowden cable to a desired rack 76 to set a. type wheel 78. When the .member 18 has been set it is raised to engage the tooth with the element 72 and is then restored by the cross-bar 13, thus adjusting the rack 76. If the item is also to be added a stop 74 is lowered to connect the element 72 with an adding-rack 73. The elements 72 are returned to home position on the next movement of the table 11 by means of a bar 79. If the perforation values on the card are reversed, the value 0 coming under the pin 15 first, the member 18, after being positioned and then raised into engagement with the element 72, is moved to the right for the remainder of its journey by means of a bar 80 to enter the value in the typing and adding devices. Fig. 4 shows the application of the invention to a Powers' machine, the pinadjusted sector 86 setting the tooth 71 to be subsequently lifted into engagement with the element 72. Specification 822,064 is referred to.